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• Physical tension: muscle tension or tightness, aches, or pain
• Fatigue: Feeling tired, sluggish, low energy, or fatigue without a clear cause
• Chronic stress or anxiety: Feeling anxious or stressed without an apparent reason or cause
• Difficulty concentrating: Struggling to focus, memory issues, or feeling spaced out and distracted
• Restlessness and Agitation: Feeling jumpy, restless, fidgety
• Sleep Issues: Sleeping too much or too little, including insomnia or sleep deprivation
• Dulled Senses: Feeling detached or disconnected from your life, thoughts, and feelings, or others
• Lethargy or low motivation: feeling of heaviness or tiredness

Emotional Symptoms:

• Anxiety or Overwhelm: Feeling overwhelmed by having to make decisions. Everything seems heavier, harder, or more intense
• Depression: Sadness, loneliness or apathy, tearing up or crying easily
• Unexplained mood swings: Fluctuations in mood without clear triggers, like feeling very sad or irritable for no reason
• Overreacting or reacting disproportionately: Irritability, overreacting in anger, or intense emotional responses to minor events
• Seeking constant distractions or perpetual busyness: Engaging in excessive work, continuous motion, achievement, multitasking, or frenzied action, hobbies, or other activities to avoid feeling
• Emotional numbing: Feeling emotionally detached or disconnected from your feelings, including interest in things you used to enjoy
• Perpetual pursuit of self-improvement: Achievement fueled by the angst of feeling not good enough
• Difficulty accepting compliments: You may struggle to receive praise, celebrate your achievements, or downplay compliments, feeling unworthy of recognition
• Trouble asking for what you need: Suppressing personal needs or struggling to ask for what you need because you feel that you don’t matter, and your needs don’t matter. You may not prioritize your desires, so you struggle to identify and assert what you want or need, and as a result, you may not accept help
• Poor Boundaries: You may have difficulty respecting your space, time, or energy, or want to withdraw from loved ones

Essential Oils for Drainage Pathways

Essential oils help keep plants healthy by facilitating the movement of vital fluids and energy within them. They transport water from the roots to the leaves and perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy, flush toxins like viruses and heavy metals, and prevent stagnation.

They perform similar functions in your body, helping to move energy and prevent stagnation. For example, essential oils help open drainage pathways, such as those in the lymphatic and circulatory systems, to improve the flow of energy and toxins through the blood, into the detoxification organs, and then out of the body. Similarly, if your liver becomes stagnant, from physical toxins, stress, or anxiety, it impedes detoxification. Essential oils are a powerful tool to help shift stagnation and improve the flow of energy and toxins through the liver and gallbladder.

Essential oils can also resonate with the frequency of healthy organ tissue and send safety signals to the body, heart, and brain, allowing you to gently release and transmute trapped emotions that may be contributing to physical congestion and stagnation. Essential oils can help shift your body into alignment, allowing toxins to flow out of your body rather than backing up in your bloodstream. More specifically, topically applying essential oils to specific points on the skin can activate energy flow directly and quickly, stimulating the liver and gallbladder to help toxins flow out of the body instead of back into the bloodstream.

Many essential oils have been found to have anesthetic properties, which helps explain their value in supporting drainage pathways. (Study) Science magazine reported that certain types of anesthetics, or substances that reduce sensitivity to pain, dramatically increase the space between cells, allowing fluid to flow more easily and helping wash the brain. Studies have verified the sedative and anesthetic properties of essential oils like clove, eucalyptus, lavender, fennel, black pepper, and peppermint. (Study) For example, the administration of clove oil, which is high in the constituent eugenol, dramatically decreased the time required for the induction of anesthesia. Similarly, both fenchone, a constituent of fennel essential oil, and linalool, a naturally occurring constituent in lavender oil, have acute local analgesic effects.

Essential Oils to Support Emotional Drainage Pathways

Your Drainage pathways refer to your body’s pathways of elimination, or the pathways that the body uses to move fluids around and out of the body. It’s the pathway by which metabolic waste, toxins, and pathogens flow out of your body.

To leave your body, waste, toxins, and pathogens flow from the cell to the fascia, to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood, processed through the liver, then eliminated via the gall bladder, carrying them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with your bowel movements.

In addition to physical toxins, suppressed or repressed emotions can congest the tissues of the drainage pathways, impeding your ability to release physical, mental, and emotional debris. The following essential oils may help support the emotional and energetic factors that can support healthy drainage pathways.

Essential oils can be powerful tools to help you work through your emotions and release repressed grief, sadness, fear, anger, and shame. Your sense of smell links directly to the emotional control center of your brain, known as the amygdala, where emotions and emotional memories are stored.

Your sense of smell is the only one of your five senses that is directly linked to this unconscious area of your brain, known as your limbic lobe, making the sense of smell and the tool of essential oils the most direct path to healing emotions like blame, shame, and guilt.

Essential oils inhaled through the nasal passages enable immediate access to the regions of the brain that house these intense emotions, allowing you to integrate and release them. The word “emotion” can translate as “energy-in-motion.” Emotion is the experience of energy moving through your body. This emotional energy operates at a higher speed than thought, and essential oils can help us clear the energetic residue of blame, so it doesn’t remain in our thought patterns and negatively impact our energy field or health.

It’s fascinating to realize that our emotions are not just abstract feelings, but they also produce physical energy. When you release these emotions, you may experience physical detoxification symptoms, such as nausea, fatigue, flu-like symptoms, headaches, joint and muscle pain, as well as emotional symptoms, including sadness or anger.

By learning to process and release these emotional toxins as part of the detoxification process, you can ensure the smooth progress of your physical detox.

Drainage Funnel

The drainage funnel in your body refers to the order in which the body moves fluids to remove toxins. Cellular waste products flow into organs and tissues, then into the lymphatic system, and subsequently into the liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts, before being ultimately expelled from the body through the colon.

To leave the body, toxins or pathogens flow from the cell to the lymphatic fluid, where they are carried into the blood. They are then processed through the liver and eliminated via the gallbladder, which carries them to the intestines in the bile, where they are eliminated with the bowel movements. Any congestion or stagnation in these drainage pathways can compromise your ability to detoxify, which is where essential oils for drainage pathways—often working from the bottom up—can be beneficial.

Fascia Release™ to help release toxins from the cells

At the very top of the drainage funnel are cells that release toxins into the extracellular matrix, also known as the fascia. Fascia is the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body, including every cell and tissue.

When we hold onto past hurts, grievances, or negative experiences, it often manifests in the body as a block of tension in the fascia, especially in the back and neck. This contributes to constriction and stagnation in the fascia, which may impede the cells’ ability to release toxins and cellular waste products, including pollutants, heavy metals, mold, and glyphosate. Toxins that linger in your cells may contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction and fatigue, draining energy that may impact your ability to detoxify.

Essential oils are a powerful tool to help “unwind” your fascia, allowing your mind and body to move out of a “frozen” or traumatized state. This gentle release of restrictions enables your body to function without needing to protect itself. Essential oils can help emotionally signal your body that you’re “safe” and physically remove restrictions, rehydrate the fascia, restore elasticity, and widen the space between the fibers to improve circulation and help blood and oxygen flow smoothly around the body again.

Fascia Release™ also helps support the fluid dynamics of the fascial system, releasing adhesions and fascial restrictions, increasing circulation, reducing tissue swelling, and expanding the space around your physical body. Releasing fascial constriction in the back of the body, specifically between the shoulder blades at the back of the heart, helps physically release fascial constrictions and adhesions around the heart, which may facilitate the healthy flow of emotional energy. As you know, fascia lies just below the skin, so topically applying essential oils onto the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia. The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances, such as essential oils, which easily penetrate the layers of restricted fascia. This creates warmth to break up congestion, increases circulation, lymphatic drainage, and mobilizes adhered tissue, allowing cells to release toxins more easily.

The essential oils in Fascia Release™ are uniquely formulated to simultaneously work on physical and psychological levels, working quickly to break down inflamed, fibrous tissue, removing toxins while unraveling deeply held tensions, constrictions and energetic blockages in your tissues to reduce pain, improve blood and lymphatic circulation and release fear, repressed emotions, and tension held in the body (organs, muscles, tendons, bones and joints) or the mind. To release fascia and support healthy drainage, liberally apply Fascia Release™ around the jaw/neck/face, back of heart, hips, and any areas of constriction.

Lymph™ for the Lymphatic System

The next step in the drainage funnel is the lymphatic system, a network of vessels, glands, and nodes that works in conjunction with your circulatory system to fight infection and drain fluids from body tissues into the bloodstream, where the liver purifies them. Before returning fluid to the blood, lymph nodes filter out bacteria, toxins, and viruses, allowing immune cells to deal with them.

The primary role of the lymphatic system is to cleanse the body of external toxins and internal cellular waste, as well as damaged proteins. If the lymph becomes congested or stagnant, tissues may swell, resulting in fluid build-up and retention, which significantly compromises your ability to drain and eliminate toxins.

Emotions like fear and sadness may contribute to a sluggish, congested, and stagnant lymphatic system. Emotions are thought to reside in the fluid of your tissues, and your lymphatic system helps support the healthy flow of this fluid throughout your body. Stress, anxiety, old traumas, and unresolved feelings linger in your tissues, energetically impacting the flow of your lymph fluid. Stress, for example, triggers the release of cortisol, which can inhibit lymphatic flow and impair immune function. 

To this end, lymphatic drainage may prompt emotional releases as the process of clearing out physical congestion also helps to process and release emotional blockages. Lymph can help release emotional tension by stimulating the lymphatic system and breaking down blockages that prevent emotions from flowing freely.

To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, apply Lymph™ generously around the sides of the neck, under the armpits, and along the bikini line. Lymph flows more heavily down the left side of the body and can get congested around the left clavicle, so it is good to apply the Lymph™ blend right on the left clavicle bone. If you think about what oils do in plants, they help to move fluid through the plant so that the water gets from the roots up to the leaves, which can be hundreds of feet in the air. That’s what the Lymph™ oil is helping you do. It’s helping you move things.

It can be especially important to apply Lymph™ oil to the clavicles and the sides of the neck, as your neck is the critical intersection where your brain connects with your body. Oxygen, nutrients, and stimuli are carried between the brain and the body through nerves, blood vessels, veins, and the spinal cord, which travel through the spinal canal.

The lack of proper drainage in the neck is often correlated with many adverse detoxification reactions, like headaches, fatigue, brain fog, depression, anxiety, and pain. If toxins are mobilized and don’t leave the body, you will feel worse. Especially if you mobilize toxins in the brain, they can recirculate and potentially relocate to a position where they cause more inflammation and damage.

You can read more about lymph flow and moving lymph with essential oils HERE and HERE. The lymphatic system is an interconnected network of organs and tissues that help to rid the body of waste and toxins.

Circulation™ to Improve Blood Flow

While not a primary detox organ, a healthy circulatory system supports overall detoxification. In addition to your lymphatic system, your circulatory system acts as a drainage pathway, which means improving your circulation helps improve drainage through your bloodstream.

Emotions and circulation are closely linked, with negative emotions such as anger and stress negatively impacting blood vessel function, which can potentially restrict blood flow. When under stress, the body releases hormones that can cause blood vessels to constrict, thereby impeding blood flow and drainage. Natural compounds, such as essential oils, have been shown to enhance circulation and blood flow. For example, essential oils can help relax and improve the health of your blood vessels. This allows more blood to circulate through them, improving your circulation and increasing brain oxygen levels in the process.

Circulation™ blend, in particular, is formulated to support healthy circulation, delivering oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and brain, while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste to the kidneys and liver for elimination. Circulation™ blend contains Black Pepper essential oil, which has been found to enhance circulation by increasing blood flow to the digestive system, thereby helping to boost nutrient absorption. This effect is so pronounced that it is often added to supplement formulations to enhance the supplement’s effectiveness. Apply 2-3 drops to the sides or back of the neck, over the left clavicle, or to the wrists or ankles to promote circulation and significantly accelerate the healing process.

Liver™ and Liver Support™ to Improve Liver Vitality

Next in the drainage funnel are the liver and gallbladder. Your Liver is the most critical drainage area of the body. It filters blood and removes toxins, converting harmful substances into water-soluble compounds that can be excreted through urine or bile. On an emotional level, the liver is connected to anger. Anger that you don’t process and release can get stored in your liver, according to Chinese medicine.

Energetically, your liver is responsible for maintaining harmony and the smooth movement of energy (known as chi) throughout the body, including the smooth transition between feelings and emotions as situations change around us. This liver energy supports your drive, planning, endurance, perseverance, quick, clear intellect, ambition, patience, and organizational abilities.

When your liver energy is balanced, you probably feel kind, benevolent, compassionate, and generous. When your liver is physically or energetically congested or stagnant, you might experience intense feelings of angry outbursts, irritability, resentment, frustration, rage, impatience, jealousy, or even depression.

Anger has a significant impact on liver health. It is seen as a heat-emitting emotion, which can ‘overheat’ the liver and disrupt liver functions, contributing to liver stagnation and decreased efficiency in processing and eliminating toxins.

If the liver is emotionally congested, physical toxins can build up and impede drainage. Your drainage pathways function like a hydraulic system, which means that your liver’s bile duct drainage system needs to flow freely for upstream lymphatic drainage to occur.

Liver Support helps support the release of anger, including frequent irritation, impatience, resentment, or frustration, as well as being critical of yourself or others, control issues, an inability to express your feelings, feelings of not being heard, not feeling loved, or not being recognized or appreciated.

Formulated to help move through and release anger and negative emotions attached to traumatic experiences from the cells of the liver to promote optimal healing. The oils in this blend help the body recognize, work through, and release anger, fear, or frustration caused by traumatic experiences, so they don’t overwhelm you. It allows you to gently release negative emotions, including repressed anger, which can create stagnant energy and impede an organ’s ability to heal. Place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3–7 breaths. It helps you breathe into and work through the emotion. You can also apply it around the ankles, as this is often an area where we hold resistance to moving forward in life and block the ability to receive joy and pleasure. Start at the back of the ankle and apply pressure under the ankle bone, moving around to the front and back under the other ankle bone, all while allowing yourself to release challenging emotions. For more tips on detoxifying emotions, read this article.

Similarly, Body Balance Liver™ helps support optimal health and vitality of the liver. Apply Liver™ directly over the liver (right side beneath the breast) 2-3 times daily. You can also combine Liver™ blend with castor oil—add three drops of Liver™ blend to 1 teaspoon of castor oil and rub it over the liver before bed. Castor oil is notoriously messy, so you can either: (1) cover it with a piece of flannel and plastic wrap and apply heat from a hot water bottle (avoid the electricity of heating pads) for 20-30 minutes, (2) wear a ratty t-shirt and let your body eat work its magic (3) climb into an Epsom salt bath with the castor oil and Liver™ oil and benefit from layering three healing strategies at the same time.

Gall Bladder™ to Improve Bile Flow

Your liver energy works in conjunction with your gallbladder energy. The liver filters toxins from the blood and processes them for elimination by depositing them into bile.

Your gallbladder is responsible for storing, releasing, and concentrating bile, a fluid produced in the liver that carries waste products out of the body. Your liver manufactures bile, and about 80% of the toxins are eliminated into the bile after the liver processes them.

Bile is stored in the gallbladder and released through bile ducts into the small intestine during digestion, where some of it is eliminated through stool, thereby lowering the level of toxins in the body. When our bile becomes too viscous, it doesn’t flow as well, and toxins (especially estrogen) don’t move out of the system and often get reabsorbed.

If gallbladder energy becomes stuck, it can back up into the liver, causing energetic congestion that can block the bile ducts and disrupt the flow of bile energy. When bile ducts get blocked, inflamed, damaged, or narrowed, toxins become stagnant and accumulate in the liver or block upstream drainage pathways. Stagnancy of bile is one of the major contributors to chronic illness and is caused most often by bacteria, viruses, medications, excess estrogen, parasites, and chemical toxins. If bile isn’t flowing, toxic bile acids are released into other organs like the kidneys, lungs, and skin.

Some indicators that the Gall Bladder™ blend might be helpful for you include motion sickness, floating stools, avoiding fatty foods like meat, or if you do eat fatty foods, needing to use the restroom shortly after. Other symptoms may include pain between the shoulder blades and a subtle headache above the eyes. For more information on supporting the gallbladder, read this article.

To support the optimal flow of bile and allow toxins to flow out of the body, apply 2-3 drops of Gall Bladder™ underneath the ribs at the gall bladder (right side, underneath the ribs. If you lean forward, it is easier to apply under the ribs.

Parasympathetic® for the Colon

Your colon is the primary drainage pathway, located at the bottom of the digestive tract. If you are constipated and not eliminating waste through regular bowel movements, you will be unable to remove wastes and toxins efficiently. As a result, the rest of the funnel upstream will become backed up and stagnant, requiring the other pathways to compensate. What’s more, anything the body is trying to excrete via the colon is going to sit there longer.

Constipation can be caused by the slowed or delayed transit time of waste matter through the colon, also known as peristalsis. The parasympathetic state of the nervous system activates the “housekeeping wave,” which moves food waste (stool) through the digestive tract. The sympathetic “fight or flight” state routes blood to the external muscles, allowing you to flee an emergency, which decreases motility and constricts sphincters. Conversely, the parasympathetic state of the nervous system activates the “housekeeping wave,” which moves food waste (stool) through the digestive tract.

Extensive research on the health-promoting and health-damaging effects of emotions has found that unprocessed negative emotions are strongly linked to disease and ill health. “The health-deleterious impact of negative emotions” like anger, fear, sadness, grief, anxiety, and depression is implicated in a wide range of diseases, from heart disease and cancer to arthritis and diabetes, and even the common cold. This likely has to do with the fact that emotions activate your “fight or flight” stress response, and unprocessed emotions are always running in the background, keeping your sympathetic nervous system on high alert even when no physical danger is present.

The key to mobilizing and releasing emotional toxins is signaling safety to the body. Your body’s fight-or-flight response can divert energy away from the gut, shutting down your ability to properly digest food and detoxify waste, as your body prioritizes safety in a state of stress. Parasympathetic® calms the nervous system, enabling you to be present in the moment and feel safe enough to release trapped emotions. This sense of embodiment and safety can support emotional detoxification. Clove oil, contained in Parasympathetic®, possesses anti-inflammatory properties that may help rebalance gastrointestinal bacteria and optimize digestion, as well as improve nutrient absorption. Parasympathetic® oil, applied on the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone), can help you drop into the parasympathetic state and improve motility.

Apply the Parasympathetic blend right behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone to help shift your body into a rest and digest state, where it digests, absorbs, and assimilates food, as well as eliminates toxins and waste. Parasympathetic® blend also helps you support your liver’s ability to transform toxic molecules into less toxic ones and help your body eliminate them. Research shows that the limonene found in citrus essential oils, such as Lime in the Parasympathetic® blend, can stimulate the production of glutathione, a key component of healthy drainage and detoxification.

Similarly, the inability to emotionally ‘let go’ can affect your ability to detoxify, as this emotional state is closely linked to your ability to process and eliminate both emotional and physical waste. Learning to release these emotional energies from the body with essential oil blends like Small Intestine™ and Large Intestine™ can be transformative, not just emotionally, but also physically, aiding in the support of healthy drainage pathways.

As you may know, the small intestine plays a critical role in the digestion process, absorbing and assimilating key nutrients while preventing harmful pathogens and toxins from entering the body. On an emotional level, the small intestine plays a similarly discerning role with emotions, helping to understand experiences and determine healthy and appropriate relationships and boundaries. It is also an area where we can hold deep childhood scars of rejection, abandonment, or abuse; negative thoughts fueled by feelings of lack of self-worth, low self‐esteem, loneliness, neglect, and anxieties about survival and success.

Small Intestine™ blend supports the healthy functioning of the small intestine as it sorts and transforms food, feelings, and ideas into useful ingredients for the body and mind. It also helps correct imbalances where you are overly attuned to others’ feelings at the expense of your own. Apply 2-3 drops of Small Intestine™ blend around the belly button in a clockwise direction.

Similarly, your large intestine lets go of those things that don’t serve us. Physically, it eliminates waste after your upper digestive system has extracted all the necessary nutrients from the food you eat. Emotionally, it enables us to release patterns of negative thinking, destructive emotions, and spiritual blockages that hinder us from being our best. Compromised large intestine energy presents as difficulty moving on from difficult situations or holding onto emotions that harm or fail to serve us. This holding on can manifest as an unwillingness to share emotions or be open with others—the phenomenon of “bottling up” emotions for years very often leads to chronic constipation.

The Large Intestine blend eases feelings of loss, heals emotional wounds, fosters a sense of security, and provides a sense of grounding. It motivates us to move forward, assists with transitions or changing course in life, eases feelings of loss, heals emotional wounds, creates a sense of security, and provides a sense of grounding. To help when emotionally stuck, apply 2-3 drops of Large Intestine™ blend over the large intestine, around the ears, or on the bottom of the feet.

Kidney Support™ for Fear

Your kidneys are responsible for filtering blood and removing water-soluble waste products. The kidneys also regulate the balance of fluids in the body, blood pressure (by maintaining a balance of salt and water), and the body’s acid-alkaline balance (pH) by selectively filtering out or retaining various minerals and electrolytes.

Your kidneys are sensitive to emotional upheavals, holding onto feelings of fear and paranoia, which can disrupt their natural filtering and balancing functions. In Chinese medicine, the kidneys are considered the seat of courage and willpower. They control the volume, composition, and pressure of fluids in all the cells. Blood flows through the kidneys at its highest pressure, filtering out toxins and directing nourishing materials to where they are needed. Water is symbolic of the unconscious, our emotions, and of that which we do not understand and that which we fear.

To help dispel fear, assist in feeling safe, and support the kidneys for optimal function, apply 2-3 drops of Kidney Support™ over the kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), the back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes.

Lung Support™ for Grief and the Respiratory System

Your lungs are sponge-like organs located near the backbone on either side of the heart. They function as a fundamental source of life energy, transporting oxygen from the atmosphere into the capillaries so that blood can be oxygenated, as well as an essential channel of elimination, expelling waste gases like carbon dioxide from the body during exhalation.

Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, and remorse can obstruct the ability of the lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic, creating disharmony in the lungs and weakening the lungs’ ability to circulate oxygen throughout the body. When lung function is impaired, it leads to shortness of breath, fatigue, and feelings of melancholy. Sadly, many chronic respiratory diseases and conditions develop after a significant loss or bereavement.

Lung Support™ helps overcome grief and release negative experiences. Apply 2-3 drops over the lungs. A regular and healthy expression of grief can be expressed as sobbing that originates in the depths of the lungs, marked by deep breaths and the expulsion of air with each sob. Allow yourself to exhale any grief as you apply the blend deeply. 

Spleen Support™ for Worry

Your spleen, located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen, plays a role in detoxification by filtering the blood and removing harmful substances. It’s part of the lymphatic system, which is responsible for filtering toxins, bacteria, and viruses out of the body. As part of the lymphatic system, the spleen functions as a filter for blood, playing a crucial role in the immune system.

According to Chinese medicine, the Spleen is responsible for housing the body’s thoughts and intentions, as well as for analytical thinking, memory, cognition, intelligence, and ideas. These emotions in their extreme states—such as overthinking, worry, excessive mental and intellectual stimulation, or any activity that requires a lot of mental effort—can create disharmony in the spleen. If you “ruminate” and obsess constantly about life experiences, you are not “transforming” them into positive fuel to motivate taking action and moving forward in life.

Apply 2-3 drops of Spleen Support™ over the spleen (located on the left side of the body, under the breast) or around the earlobes for emotional support.

Skin

Your skin is our largest organ and a major elimination pathway. Sweating is a crucial drainage pathway for certain toxins and metabolic byproducts.

Your sweat glands act as a key channel, helping to support the removal of any toxic overflow from the liver or kidneys. For example, skin reactions like acne, rosacea, psoriasis, or rashes are often an indication that the liver and kidneys are processing more toxins than the body can handle, so your pores will start to sweat out these toxins.

Sweat therapy can be traced back to Native American sweat lodges, Roman baths, Scandinavian saunas, and Turkish baths. Recent research corroborates the benefits, finding toxins like heavy metals in sweat after exercise. Fat-soluble toxins, such as endocrine disruptors like BPA, can also be excreted through the skin via sweat. Supporting the detoxification pathway via the skin can lessen the burden on other detox organs like the liver and the kidneys (which is especially helpful for the kidneys, as they are delicate organs and can be easily damaged by overuse).

My favorite tool for eliminating toxins via sweat therapy is a detox bath with 2 cups of Epsom salt, 1 cup of baking soda, and a few drops of Vibrant Blue Oils Parasympathetic® oil. The clove oil in the Parasympathetic® blend helps to draw toxins out of the skin, thereby lessening the burden on the liver, gallbladder, and kidneys. For more tips on healing baths, read this article or download this FREE guide.

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Parasympathetic® Grounding is known to calm the sympathetic nervous system and promote overall nervous system balance. Supporting the Parasympathetic State, which is associated with rest and digest functions, can also aid in grounding the body, further benefiting the vagus nerve. The lime oil in the Parasympathetic® blend can help promote emotional grounding, fostering a balance between the heart and mind, which is the connection that enables you to ground. To experience these benefits, apply Parasympathetic® over the vagus nerve, located behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone.

2nd Chakra: Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana): Regulates creativity and emotional intimacy

Located in the lower abdomen/upper pelvic area, between the navel and the pubic bone, the Sacral Chakra links to creativity, emotional health, passion, intimacy, and sexual energy. It supports healthy boundaries, including healthy relationship patterns and a feeling of connection to the world.

The Sacral Chakra governs reproductive organs, adrenals, kidneys, bladder, and the umbilical cord. The sacral chakra is associated with the fluidity of the water element and correlated with emotional highs and lows. It can relate to a persistent state of fear, stress, or fight-or-flight, embodying feelings of wounded emotions, including feeling unloved, unwanted, disrespected, uncared for, or unappreciated. This triggers the adrenal glands to release cortisol continuously.

The sacral chakra can either trigger intense feelings of being consumed by your emotions, like anxiety and overwhelm, or feelings of dissociation, detachment, avoidance, loneliness, repression, isolation, low libido, including inability to experience emotional or sexual intimacy, or lack of creative inspiration.

Essential oils like Kidney Support™ and Adrenal® may help balance the Sacral Chakra.

Kidney Support™, the sacral chakra is believed to be connected to the kidneys, especially the emotional and water element of the kidneys. Your kidneys control the volume, composition, and pressure of fluids in all the cells. Water is symbolic of the unconscious, our emotions, and of that which we do not understand and that which we fear. These feelings of fear and paranoia can be held in your kidneys, impairing function. To help release the fear so that you can release any blocks in the Sacral Chakra, smell or apply Kidney Support™ over the kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes.

Kidney Support™, when applied over your kidneys (one inch up and out from the belly button), the back of the neck, or around the outside of the earlobes, can help dispel fear and assist you in feeling safe. Kidney Support™ contains Cedarwood, which helps the brain focus, especially with anxiety disorders, and increases energy to the solar plexus chakra. Spruce supports the nervous and glandular systems, helps balance the solar plexus, and calms anxiety and stress.

Adrenal®: Your adrenal glands help determine and regulate the body’s stress response by secreting key hormones that regulate energy production and storage. Prolonged periods of stress can deplete our reserves of these hormones. Supporting your adrenal glands and their energy reserves helps support your solar plexus’s healthy function. Much like adaptogenic herbs, Vibrant Blue Oils Adrenal® blend helps increase the body’s ability to adapt to stress and maintain healthy adrenal function. Rosemary essential oil, in particular, supports adrenal function, as it naturally relieves stress and nervous exhaustion and stimulates the immune system. A 2007 study found that Rosemary oil decreased cortisol levels in saliva when inhaled.

Adrenal® blend also contains several stimulatory oils like Thyme and Cinnamon that help you feel invigorated, revitalized, and energetic. Inhale Adrenal® through the left nostril or apply 1-2 drops to the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side).

3rd Chakra: Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura): Personal power, Confidence, and Self-Esteem

Located in the upper abdomen, behind the navel, the Solar Plexus Chakra acts as the body’s energy powerhouse. It is associated with your sense of self, including your power, confidence, self-esteem, self-worth, willpower, and the ability to take action. A balanced Solar Plexus Chakra allows energy to flow, helping you to feel empowered, make decisions, and create a life aligned with your authentic self. Your Solar Plexus Chakra also correlates with healthy boundaries so that energy flows in a healthy way to support both physical and emotional health.

Congestion in this chakra may contribute to feelings of stagnation, overwhelm, powerlessness, anger, aggression, rigidity, or controlling behavior. You may struggle with difficulty making decisions, procrastination, giving up easily, or acting out of fear. On a physical level, the Solar Plexus Chakra is thought to govern your digestive system, including your metabolism, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.

Essential oils—like Small Intestine Support™, Pancreas™, Liver Support™, and Digest™—can help you maintain the healthy function of the Solar Plexus Chakra.

Small Intestine Support™: Healthy solar plexus energy lets you set clear boundaries to support healthy relationships and self-care. Small Intestine Support™ helps you fortify and embody your third chakra, which helps strengthen your energetic field, so external energy does not penetrate your field.

Small Intestine Support™ contains a proprietary formulation of boundary-supporting essential oils, including grapefruit, which helps to move stagnant energy and is said to address a person’s self-acceptance and release self-abusive patterns. In addition, Mandarin oil is known to help disperse stagnant energy within the solar plexus and release tension and frustration. Similarly, Lime clears trapped emotions and thoughts, helping to overcome stagnant energies and stimulates your drive for clear boundaries.

Apply 2-3 drops of Small Intestine Support™ around the belly button in a clockwise direction. It is also helpful to apply around the ears and over the heart. You can start on the bottom of the ear at the earlobes and gently massage upward along the exterior of the ear, hitting many of the major reflexology points. This article and chart show specific ear points related to particular issues.

Pancreas™: The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes that help break down nutrients so they can be adequately absorbed in the small intestine. The pancreas also helps to control blood sugar levels and allow “sweetness” (including energetic sweetness like love) into your life, as your pancreas is directly related to the ability to process nutrients, emotions, and life experiences. On an emotional level, the pancreas is often associated with feelings of worry, anxiety, and low self-esteem. When emotions like worry and anxiety are strong, they can disrupt digestive processes. 

Herbal remedies, like the Pancreas™ blend of essential oils of Rose Geranium, Anise Seed, Geranium, Cucumber, and Rose, help tonify and balance the pancreas against overload and fatigue to support optimal function. To put the pancreas in balance, consider rubbing some Pancreas™ on the fifth rib (2 down from the bottom of your bra) on the left side of the body to help put the pancreas back in balance for optimal function.

Liver Support™: The solar plexus is sometimes called the abdominal brain because it regulates the abdominal organs, like your liver. Depleted solar plexus energy depletes energy from your liver, which presents as liver problems. Liver Support™ helps support your emotional liver health. For example, Helichrysum, in particular, helps to strengthen and fortify the solar plexus.

German Chamomile helps the liver to release stagnant energy, purify the liver, and discharge toxins. Lavender™ is an adaptogenic essential oil that works wherever balancing is needed and is often used as a “rescue” remedy when high emotions are present. Lavender™ encourages the release of pent-up feelings, dispersing stagnant life energy. It works to cool and calm an overactive liver, restoring emotional balance.

Apply 2-3 drops of Liver Support™ over the liver (right side of the body under the breast). You can also apply with a castor oil pack over the liver or place a drop or two on the palms, rub hands together, cover your nose, and inhale. 

Liver Support™ allows you to release anger, stagnation, and suppressed negative memories that lock those beliefs in place on a deep cellular level, including the chakra level. Place the bottle under your nose and breathe deeply, fully inhaling the oil for 3–7 breaths. It helps you breathe into and work through the self-limiting belief. You can also apply it around the ankles, as this is often an area where we resist moving forward and block the ability to receive joy and pleasure. Start at the back of the ankle and apply under the ankle bone, around to the front and back under the other ankle bone, all while allowing yourself to release your self-limiting beliefs.

Digest™: Designed to alleviate digestive issues, Digest™ contains a proprietary formulation of powerful solar plexus supporting oils like Juniper, which helps clear stagnation in the solar plexus. Juniper helps to increase circulation in the kidneys and liver and free up constricted energy.

Similarly, Ginger can gently stimulate your solar plexus and support healthy digestive function. Peppermint™ is also known to be soothing for digestion and supportive of the liver. Apply 2-3 drops of Digest™ in a clockwise circle around the belly button.

4th Chakra: Heart Chakra – Love, Compassion, and Emotional Balance

Located in the center of the chest, near the physical heart, the Heart Chakra governs your ability to connect with others and experience feelings of love, compassion, and empathy. It also influences your capacity for self-love and forgiveness. 

A balanced Heart Chakra allows for the free flow of energy, leading to feelings of inner peace, strong relationships, and emotional stability. A blocked or unbalanced Heart Chakra can lead to emotional instability, loneliness, resentment, difficulty forming healthy relationships, and a sense of isolation. 

Your heart chakra bridges the lower three earth chakras and the upper three heavenly chakras. When your heart chakra is clear and open, energy flows seamlessly to all other chakras, fostering a profound sense of love, open-heartedness, alignment, balance, and healthy connections with others.

A balanced heart chakra is pivotal in unlocking the full spectrum of a joyful and abundant life. The heart chakra possesses the ability to heal through the highest frequency attainable. This healing energy radiates inward and then extends outward.

Your heart chakra governs the physical heart, lungs, and thymus gland, and it interweaves with your vagus nerve, impacting the parasympathetic nervous system.

Essential Oils like Heart™ and Lung Support™ may help harmonize and balance the Heart Chakra.

The oils in the Heart™ blend in particular may help to balance your heart energy to promote feelings of safety that allow your subconscious mind to release negative stored memories and emotions and replace them with positive beliefs. Essential oils can also help release emotions trapped within various body organs and tissues, including your Heart Chakra.

Heart™ balances the heart to enhance compassion and support, integrate and reset all body systems, including supporting feelings of open-heartedness, expansiveness, and receptivity while mitigating loneliness, sadness, and grief. The heart integrates and balances the physical, emotional, and mental body, providing blood to every cell and every organ. It also serves as a complex information processing center, influencing brain function, the nervous system, the hormonal system, and most of the body’s major organs. The heart is our body’s reset button, but a state of constant stress can fatigue the heart and compromise our ability to reset, leading to inflammation, infections, toxicity, and heart disease. By returning the heart to balance, we support the cardiovascular and circulatory system, regenerate the heart’s structure, and help reset the homeostatic mechanism for the entire body.

Heart™ blend contains a proprietary blend of organic and/or wildcrafted essential oils, including Jasmine, which positively influences the nervous system, lifts anxiety, soothes emotional stress, and shows love to others and yourself. Research has shown that sweet smells, like those found in the Heart™ blend, have been shown to reduce pain by activating the opioid receptors in the brain. Apply Heart™ blend over the heart or on the wrists to clear and reharmonize your Heart Chakra.

Lung Support™: Your lungs contribute to self-confidence by maintaining your physiological boundaries. Lungs in harmony provide for optimism and are our source of self-respect.

Feelings of grief, bereavement, regret, loss, and remorse can obstruct the ability of the lungs to accept and relinquish, impeding their function of “taking in” and “letting go”. Grief that remains unresolved can become chronic and create disharmony in the lungs, weakening the lungs’ function of circulating oxygen around the body. Lung Support™ was designed to help overcome grief and let go of negative experiences.

Lung Support™ contains citrus oils like Bergamot, which help release emotions and tension and promote joy and courage. The relaxing properties of bergamot have been shown to boost confidence and reduce stress hormone levels in the body and prohibit the release of adrenaline by the body, which helps promote self-acceptance, self-love, and self-approval, which support your sense of self-worth.

Similarly, Orange essential oils help to clear stagnant thoughts and grief, strengthening focus toward positive thoughts and increased confidence. Red Mandarin helps switch off an overactive mind, promotes relaxation, connects with the inner child, and releases long-held grief and sadness.

Lung Support™ also contains Rose essential oil, which is known to help relieve stress and support feelings of self-worth.

This blend works best when topically applied over the lungs or around the ears. It can also be deeply inhaled, and allowing yourself to gently release intense emotions with your exhale is a powerful strategy to enable you to micro-dose emotional release.

5th Chakra: Throat Chakra (Vishuddha) – Communication, Self-Expression, and Speaking Your Truth

Situated in the throat region, encompassing the neck, mouth, jaw, and ears, the Throat Chakra is the energy center associated with communication, self-expression, and speaking your truth. When this chakra is blocked or congested, it impacts your ability to express your feelings or ask for what you need.

Your Throat Chakra facilitates clear communication, honest expression, and creative manifestation through speech and other forms of communication. Due to its location at the base of the throat, your throat chakra acts as a bridge between the heart and mind, allowing you to express your authentic self to the world. Vagus nervefibers connect to the heart, lungs, throat, inner ear, and face, allowing information gathered from the ears and heart to be received and sent.

The throat chakra also enables you to produce sound. Sound is essentially vibration. Your expression, tone, and choice of words influence how you interact and co-regulate with others, sending signals of safety, care, and love.

The throat chakra impacts your Thyroid gland, vocal cords, and vagus nerve. Essential oils—like Thyroid Support and Parasympathetic—may help support the Throat Chakra.

Thyroid Support helps support the throat chakra and clear expression. Thyroid Support assists both the physical and energetic thyroid and throat area to help enhance your ability to communicate your thoughts, opinions, desires, and feelings and listen to, hear, and hold space for each other.

As you may know, your thyroid gland relates emotionally to self-expression and the struggle to communicate. This includes speaking up for yourself and not suppressing your truth, failing to ask for what you want, or feeling you do not have the right to ask for what you want. Suppressed communication can give rise to feelings of shame and humiliation, never getting to do what you want, or never prioritizing your wants and needs.

An inability to speak one’s truth—including difficulty in self-expression, feeling suppressed or shut down in creative endeavors, or “swallowing” or “stifling” your words to keep the peace or win people’s approval—will often cause physical problems in the thyroid, mouth, and neck area around the throat.

Thyroid Support™ blend contains powerful oils including Angelica Root to promote feelings of balance and help release or let go of negative emotions, German Chamomile, which brings balance to emotional intensity, Frankincense, which helps you communicate from a clear and centered place, and Neroli, which helps reduce feelings of stress to support open, honest communication.

Apply 2-3 drops of Thyroid Support™ over the throat or heart throughout the day as needed to aid with speaking your truth. You may also consider the following affirmation in conjunction with the Thyroid Support™ blend. “I allow myself to express freely and creatively.”

6th Chakra: Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) – Clarity, Intuition, and Insight

Located between the eyebrows, the Third Eye Chakra is associated with intuition, wisdom, perception, imagination, and spiritual awareness. When balanced, this chakra enhances focus and mental clarity, allowing for a deeper understanding of yourself and the world. ‘

It enhances your vision, awakening you from illusion and enabling you to perceive reality more clearly.

The insights gained from the third eye increase spiritual awareness of ourselves and others.

The third eye is found in the front part of the brain, the region known as the prefrontal lobe, and is said to be connected to the pineal gland, eyes, and nervous system. The prefrontal lobe is the part of the brain that controls thoughts, actions, emotions, critical thinking, and behavior.

The pineal gland is located outside the blood-brain barrier between the cerebral hemispheres, in the brain’s midline. The pineal gland works with the pituitary, the hypothalamus, and the thalamus glands to regulate the body’s hormonal system.

Essential Oils—like Hypothalamus and Circadian Rhythm—may help support the healthy function of the Third Eye Chakra.

Hypothalamus™: Your hypothalamus is a pearl-sized region of the brain located just above the brain stem, serving as the control center for neural and hormonal messages received from/sent to the body. The ability of the hypothalamus to receive clear messages from the body helps ensure the health of the Third Eye chakra.

Formulated with Mandarin, Patchouli, Frankincense, Bay Rum, and Pine, Hypothalamus™ helps return your hypothalamus to its original blueprint to ensure that it sends and receives healthy signals. Frankincense in particular contains compounds known as sesquiterpenes that cross the blood-brain barrier and increase oxygen around receptor sites in the emotional centers of your brain, like your hypothalamus and amygdala, helping to calm anxiety. Sesquiterpenes are C15 carbon chains that do not contain oxygen molecules, but seem to pull oxygen in. This is one reason oxygen levels seem to increase when essential oils high in sesquiterpenes are topically applied to the brain or inhaled through the nose.

To help return the hypothalamus to balance, apply one drop of Vibrant Blue Oils Hypothalamus™ to the forehead right above the third eye (right above the nose between eyebrows and hairline) up to 6 times daily. The blends also help to wake up intuition and connect with the heart center, when applied on the sternum over the heart (it might feel a bit tender on the spot), and directly behind the earlobe (where the ear connects to the head). For Aromatic Usage, hold the bottle under the nose for 3 or 4 breaths.

Circadian Rhythm®: Essential oils can help the pineal gland return to its innate intelligence and release more melatonin naturally. Activating the pineal gland with essential oils can help balance the Third Eye Chakra. Your nose is a direct gateway to the brain and the pineal gland. To stimulate the olfactory passage to detoxify and activate the pineal gland, you can either inhale Circadian Rhythm oil or place a drop in specific spots around the head—on the very top of the head, the very back of the head, and on the skin above the ears. The pineal gland is located in the brain’s center, so topically applying oils directly around the brain allows transdermal access. Circadian Rhythm® blend can be applied around the base of the skull (apex of head, above ears, and back of head) to help trigger the natural release of melatonin and support healthy Third Chakra function.

7th Chakra: Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) – Higher Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, and Connection to Divine.

Located at the top of the head, or slightly above—like a crown, radiating upward. Its location is closely linked to the brain and the nervous system.

Your crown chakra is associated with higher consciousness, spirituality, universal consciousness, wisdom, unity, self-knowledge, and a sense of connection to something beyond yourself. It’s often visualized as a thousand-petaled lotus, with each petal representing a different aspect of our being, such as emotions, thoughts, and actions.

Like the fascia network—the vast three-dimensional network of connective tissue that envelops and connects all body parts—the crown chakra is thought to collect and store energies amassed through kind thoughts and actions, faith, meditation, and prayer.

Fascia is thought to hold emotional and energetic “imprints” from trauma, stress, or prolonged negative patterns. Some believe fascia acts as a communication system, carrying electrical signals and information between different parts of the body. The fascia’s vast network of nerve endings and sensory receptors contributes to this idea. This interconnectedness allows for transmitting emotional and energetic information throughout the body. Supporting the healthy flow of information through the fascia may help support the healthy function of the crown chakra.

The crown chakra is also associated with the pituitary, pineal glands, and the hypothalamus, brain, and nervous system. Energetically, the seventh chakra has a connection with the first chakra. They are bookends of the chakra system.

Essential oils—like Fascia Release and Limbic Reset—may help support the crown chakra.

The essential oils in Fascia Release™ are uniquely formulated to simultaneously work on physical and psychological levels, unraveling deeply held tensions, constrictions, and energetic blockages in your tissues. Essential oils soften the myofascial tissue, allowing the deep and constrained tissue to stretch and move as it is designed to function.

Fascia Release™ contains Frankincense, which promotes calmness, aids visualization, and creates balance while connecting with the higher self. Topically apply to the top of the head and the back of the neck.

Limbic Reset™️: Your sense of smell has direct access to your limbic system, making essential oils an ideal tool to calm threat arousal and send safety cues to help reset your limbic system and support healthy emotional regulation. Limbic Reset™️ was formulated explicitly with Helichrysum and Sandalwood and Melissa oils, which are touted for brain function and known to cross the blood-brain barrier and assist in carrying oxygen to the limbic system and support the crown chakra.

To support the crown chakra, apply 1-2 drops on the forehead (above the eyes and on the temples), at the base of the skull at the back of the neck, on the bottom of the feet, and especially on the amygdala reflex point on the big toe.

Chakra Cards

I have been using these high vibrational Chakra Cards, designed with sacred geometry and explicitly created to activate, align, and refine the Chakra Energy Centers. In addition to sacred geometry, these cards incorporate crystals, sacred sound, and color to produce an excellent vibrational harmony. I draw 1-3 cards daily and read them aloud to identify the chakra priority and help assist chakras to clear, evolve, and align with the addition of essential oils. 

This deck of 48 Chakra Cards is a highly effective energy healing tool and is a perfect companion for essential oils.

• Restricted Mobility affects your ability to move freely and comfortably, as your feet are the foundation of your movement and mobility
• Stiffness, pain, and weakness in the feet and ankles
• Altered posture, gait, or stance as stress may impact posture, resulting in a bracing response or an imbalance of weight distribution to your feet and ankles
• Referred pain in other areas of your body, such as tightness in the feet, may exacerbate existing muscular imbalances, leading to uneven stimulus of the affected structures
• Foot pain or cramping
• Plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the plantar fascia, the thick band of tissue running across the bottom of the foot) and other foot problems. Stress can cause tiny tears in the plantar fascia, making walking difficult.
• Poor Circulation and Cold Feet—Under stress, cortisol, and other stress hormones may constrict blood vessels and redirect blood flow away from the feet and ankles toward more essential organs. This can result in a lack of oxygen and nutrient supply to your feet and ankles, causing pain. As the farthest point from the heart, your feet often bear the brunt of circulation issues. This may feel like a burning, cold, numb, or tingling (pins-and-needles) sensation in your feet and ankles. Poor circulation can also delay the healing of wounds and exacerbate conditions like varicose veins or peripheral artery disease.

Essential Oils for the Feet

Essential oils can be topically applied to the soles of your feet and between your toes to help release gripping and support health.

Essential oils are lipophilic (fat-soluble) and comprise super-small molecules that penetrate the skin for easy absorption into the bloodstream.

As an extremity, your feet are located furthest from your heart, making it more difficult to receive healing remedies, especially if circulation is challenging. For example, cold, tingly toes, plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, hammer toes, and fallen arches are examples of poor blood flow to the feet, which can impact your posture and how you move, sit, and stand.

Topically applied essential oils impact the feet immediately and directly, allowing the oils’ physical, mental, and emotional benefits to reach multiple organs, systems, and areas of the body that need support.

Your feet are the foundation of your body. If they grip, it throws everything upstream, causing the rest of the body to be out of alignment.

Applying essential oils topically to the bottom of your feet can improve blood flow and mobility, release fascia, stimulate muscles, reduce tension, and ease pain.

1. Fascia Release™

Fascia is the band of thin, fibrous connective tissue that wraps around and supports every structure in your body, including the feet and toes. It twists and turns from the feet up the body, helping to support the arch of the foot and playing an essential role in standard foot mechanics during walking. 

When your fascia is healthy, it’s flexible and stretches with you. When stressed, it tightens up, restricting movement and pulling you out of alignment. Patterns in your fascia develop to compensate for how you walk and stand. These facial misalignments can contribute to gait issues, including pronating and supinating, foot issues like bunions, or even ankle instability. These misalignments can impact everything up the chain.

Fascia Release™ is formulated to improve the ankle muscles’ physical, mental, and emotional flexibility. Helping to release fascial adhesions in the feet may help strengthen proper alignment and unwind the challenges responsible for creating adhesions in the fascia and blocking energy flow throughout the body.

Fascia can help with functional movement by reducing friction between structures. The collagen that makes up fascia is organized in a wavy pattern. Healthy fascia layers are flexible and can slide over one another. When pulled, these tissue lines resist tensile and shear loads, helping keep your feet and body parts together.

Stress and tension can limit flexibility, and the fascia can become matted and form hardened areas called adhesions. Fascial adhesions or hardened and adhered fascia—which can no longer slide smoothly—lead to restricted movement and foot gripping, especially if the fascia becomes so thick that nerves constrict. Fascial compartments may also become tight and not allow for normal movement of lymph and blood into and out of the compartment, contributing to pain and swelling.

As you may know, fascia lies just below the skin, so topically applying essential oils to the skin allows for easy and immediate access to the fascia. The skin is your largest organ and is relatively permeable to fat-soluble substances like essential oils that can permeate the tissue and may help release adhesions and fascial restriction, increase circulation, and decrease swelling in the tissue around the feet.

The essential oils in the Fascia Release™ blend are uniquely formulated to unravel deeply held tensions, constrictions, and energetic blockages in your tissues to reduce pain, improve blood and lymphatic circulation, and release fear, repressed emotions, and tension held in the body (organs, muscles, tendons, bones, and joints) or the mind.

Fascia Release™ blend can be topically applied to the soles of your feet and between toes to create space between those joints and help bring the body into balance. For example, you can roll essential oils on the bottom of your feet to improve blood flow and release fascial adhesions. Roll the Fascia Release™ on the back of the toes, then slide your fingers between your toes, pressing to the point of discomfort, and hold for three minutes. This can undo the fascial holding pattern and tremendously help with your balance (be patient with this one; it could take some time to fit your fingers between your toes!)

2. Adrenal®

Your adrenal glands are essential to the body’s stress response, secreting stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. To help your adrenal glands support the healthy release of stress hormones, you can topically apply Adrenal® on the adrenal reflex point on the inner edges of the feet. These reflex points play a crucial role in managing stress hormones. Applying pressure here can help balance cortisol levels and contribute to overall relaxation.

To locate the adrenal reflex, follow a line straight underneath the ball of your big toe, called the Tendon Line (the tendon that pops out when you point your big toe towards your chin). The reflex is located slightly off the tendon line towards the medial side (towards the big toe side of your foot), halfway between the ball of your big toe and the highest point of your arch. Topically apply Adrenal® along with gentle but deep thumb pressure to this point for 1-2 min. 

You can also topically apply 1-2 drops of Adrenal® on the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side). Dilute if desired or if any redness occurs.

Inhaling Adrenal® blend through the left nostril helps to stimulate the left frontal lobe and create a balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which then balances the over-activity of the right frontal lobe and leads to feelings of calm.

3. Parasympathetic®

Foot gripping is a physical response to “fight or flight” situations.

Calming the sympathetic “fight or flight” nervous system response may help promote overall nervous system balance and release gripping. The lime oil in the Parasympathetic® blend can help promote emotional grounding, fostering a balance between the heart and mind, the connection of which enables you to ground. 

To experience these benefits, apply Parasympathetic® over the vagus nerve, located behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone where the vagus nerve is closest to the surface of your body.

4. Limbic Reset™

Your limbic system governs your emotional responses and survival instincts, including the “fight, flight, or freeze” response. This response then influences your feet’s reactions, movements, and stances.

Your limbic system—your “threat-detection & response” mechanism wired to respond to sensory information—reacts instantaneously to incoming data from your environment. Emotional reactions occur before thought. Before you’ve had time to develop any conscious plan, your limbic brain has already ensured that your feet react instantly to any threat or concern.

Your body and the limbic system can get “stuck” in hypervigilance and over-reactivity, categorizing non-threatening stimuli as threatening, triggering involuntary protective responses, like feet gripping. Helping to restore proper function to the limbic system can help TURN OFF the alarm in your limbic system—in effect, rebalancing inhibition and activation—and TURN ON your body’s self-healing mechanisms by regulating your “fight or flight” and “freeze” responses.

As your sense of smell is critical to your sense of safety and your olfactory bulb is physically located near your limbic system, essential oils can be a powerful tool to help restore the proper function of your limbic system.

Olfactory stimulation with essential oil blends like Limbic Reset™ can reset the volume of threat perception and help calm the over-firing of your limbic system.

Limbic Reset™ contains essential oils designed to calm threat arousal and send safety queues to help reset your limbic system and support healthy emotional regulation. Topically apply Limbic Reset™ on the bottom of the feet, and especially on the amygdala reflex point on the big toe. You can also apply Emotional Points on the forehead (above the eyes and on the temples) and an emotional release point at the base of the skull at the back of the neck.

5. Anti-Inflammatory™

Topically applying the Anti-Inflammatory™ blend to the bottom of the feet before bed can calm inflammation in the body and the skin.

Anti-Inflammatory™ is designed to reduce inflammation and encourage regeneration of damaged or stressed connective tissues, including those involved in foot gripping. Anti-Inflammatory™ is especially helpful for calming inflammation in protective tissues around nerves, reducing the inflammatory compression contributing to nerve pain. Anti-Inflammatory™ contains Ylang-ylang, which has healing properties that repair nerve damage.

It also includes Frankincense™, known for its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and sedative properties. Frankincense™ has been shown to improve the accurate transmission and communication of messages between the nerves and the brain. Incorrect sensory messages can result in nerve pain, so improving the accuracy of signals can eliminate pain.

Anti-Inflammatory™ also contains ginger, an excellent antioxidant that helps reduce inflammation and kill bacteria to heal infectious areas. Ginger oil is a rubefacient, which means it is warming in nature. It helps dilate capillaries and increase blood circulation.

It’s perfect for chronic joint pain, stiff muscles, and tendons and ligaments that need softening. When applied topically, ginger directly inhibits vanilloid receptors to soothe nerve pain, increase blood flow, reduce inflammation, and relieve achy pain. Apply 2-3 drops of Anti-Inflammatory™ to the bottom of the feet before bed.

6. Circulation™

Circulation™ helps support the delivery of oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the feet to help speed healing and pain relief. Formulated to support healthy circulation to deliver oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the body and the brain while simultaneously carrying toxins and waste away from the cells to be eliminated, the Circulation™ blend may help open the vasculature to allow for optimal blood flow to both carry healing oxygen and nutrients to cells and allow a painful and inflamed area to heal faster.

Circulation™ contains powerful oils known to support bone health, including Cypress oil, an antispasmodic known to improve circulation and reduce fatigue and stress. Similarly, Nutmeg oil soothes pain, and research has proven its anti-inflammatory properties in reducing pain and swelling.

Black pepper is one of the best oils for alleviating deep tissue pain. It warms muscles and increases blood flow to the injury while reducing inflammation and pain. In combination with ginger essential oil in the Circulation™ blend, Black Pepper helps enhance circulation, reduce inflammation, and block pain. The heat of these oils is known to speed up the healing process. Apply 2-3 drops of Circulation™ on the bottom of the feet or around the ankles to help increase blood flow.

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